This article utilizes ethnological fieldwork data and sociological mass survey data to analyze attitudes of Albanians and Kosovo citizens (also Albanians ethnic-wise) towards people of other racial backgrounds. This interdisciplinary approach allows comparing overall levels of racial intolerance at Balkans and identifying individual characteristics that predict higher levels of racism. Simultaneously, rigorous fieldwork and interviewing adds much to this generalized picture by introducing real experience and explanatory paradigms of people who live at Balkans concerning racial “others” (in Simmelian sense). The racial issue at Balkans is theoretically appealing as most people live, and have always lived, in racially homogeneous neighborhoods (with the only experience of exposure to interracial contact in the times of Albanian-Chinese friendship in 1961-1971). Thus, the question of their readiness to live in racially-mixed neighborhoods becomes a proxy for openness to any unknown “others”. We show that in Alba
Translated title of the contributionAttitudes towards neighbors of other races: The cases of Albania and Kosovo
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)100-127
Number of pages28
JournalЭтнография
Volume2019
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 May 2019

    Scopus subject areas

  • Anthropology
  • Cultural Studies
  • History
  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

    Research areas

  • Albania, European Values Study, Kosovo, multidisciplinary research, neighbors in Europe, racism, Албания, Европейское исследование ценностей, Косово, междисциплинарность, расизм, соседства в Европе

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